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Grand Hotel, which captured the Best Picture Oscar in 1932 (the third of three years when the Academy Awards were held at the end of the year - they reverted to the first quarter in 1934, where they have remained), became a template of sorts for ma...

Grand Illusion looks back on the 20th century’s first global conflict from the perspective of a world on the brink of an even greater war. This film, which was cited by Joseph Goebbels as “Cinematic Public Enemy No. 1” when he sought to ...

Wow. If ever there was a case to be made for 3-D as a valuable cinematic tool, Alfonso Cuaron has made it. Put alongside Avatar and Hugo (with honorable mentions going to Prometheus and Life of Pi), Gravity shows the power of 3-D when applied ...

The Great Gatsby is widely recognized as one of the best American novels of the 20th century, although many remember it as a book we were forced to read in high school. Thus far, there have been several attempts to convert the book into a movie (mo...

The name of "Ziegfeld" is known to many who have never heard of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. Even 80 years after the final show was produced, "The Ziegfeld Follies" remain among the best-known high class song-and-dance stage spectacles to grace Broadway. ...

The date is February 2 and the place is Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray), on hand to cover the Groundhog Day ceremony, is having one of the most unpleasant experiences of his life. It's one of th...

Back in the 1980s, when Sylvester Stallone was at his peak and the Rocky movies were arriving at regular intervals, there was an ongoing joke that, 20 or 30 years from then, Stallone would be doing Rocky 15 with the pugilist using a walker to get a...

Sometimes the films I enjoy the most aren't the ones that get four stars. For example, while Farewell My Concubine is an example of superior, powerful film making, it isn't the sort of movie you embrace for the pure magic of the entertainment it...

Marvel’s post-Thanos struggles continue, this time in a movie that features two of the Mad Titan’s daughters. Although the malaise that has afflicted many of the recent MCU releases – from the unheralded Eternals to the much-hyped Doctor Str...

The Covenant offers Guy Ritchie an opportunity to step out of his comfort zone and try something with more substance than is usual for him. Gone are the snarky one-liners and zingers that have become his trademarks. And, although there’s certain...